Rabbi Sharon Brous is founder of the IKAR congregation in Los Angeles, a vibrant and innovative new spiritual community in Los Angeles. For the last three years (2005-2007), IKAR has been included in Slingshot, A Resource Guide to Jewish Innovation, an annual compilation of the 50 most inspiring and innovative organizations, projects, and programs in the North American Jewish community today. From 2004-2006, Rabbi Brous was included in the Jewish Forward's Forward 50, a list of the most influential voices embodying "the spirit of Jewish action as it is emerging in America." Since 2005, she has been a member of the Synagogue 3000 Leadership Network, a select national group of rabbis, cantors, and artists working to transform and revitalize American Jewish spiritual communities.

The Rev. Dr. James Alexander Forbes, Jr. is President and Founder of the Healing of the Nations Foundation of New York and Senior Minister Emeritus of the Riverside Church. Dr. Forbes completed his leadership of this historic multicultural church after 18 years of service, to begin a national and global ministry for spiritual renewal and holistic health.  An internationally known communicator, Newsweek magazine’s March 4, 1996 issue recognized Forbes as one of the 12 “most effective preachers” in the English-speaking world.

Eboo Patel is founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that is building the interfaith movement through service and dialoge. His blog, The Faith Divide, explores what drives faiths apart and what brings them together. Eboo is the author of Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the soul of a Generation.

Hozan Alan Senauke is a Soto Zen priest and teacher in the tradition of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Alan is presently serving as tanto or head of practice at Berkeley Zen Center in California. From 1991 to 2001, Alan was Executive Director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, and currently serves as its program director.

Alan is one of the founders of Think Sangha, a group of Buddhist-activist intellectuals and writers. He continues to work as a social activist supporting the development of a Socially Engaged Buddhism. In another realm, Alan has been a student and performer of American traditional music for nearly 40 years.